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Do you find that some of the ages of antiquities do not balance with the Bibles time frame? If you think so does it bother you or not?
When the Bible goes back only 5 or 6 thousand years and doesn't mention dinosaurs and Pangea and other things that we know are on the planet does that cause you confusion or disbelief?
Do you find yourself questioning science or your religious beliefs?
Do you find other ways of meshing both?
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Do you find yourself questioning science or your religious beliefs?
Do you find other ways of meshing both?
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October 19, 2009 01:39 AM
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I have always felt and my faith has always had me believe that God is timeless. If God is the beginning and the end, time, being a man made concept to measure tenure, cannot be applied to that which is religious. I'm certain that our universe has existed for billions of years, I'm certain that modern man has walked the earth for over 100,000 years, I'm certain we evolved from apes, I'm certain life first appeared on earth 1 or 2 billion years ago. Time as it appears in the Bible is not God's time, for God is timeless. Sometimes being accepting of scientific facts does mean that one can't be strongly religious as well. I believe in evolution, but also classify myself as a creationist, perhaps not in the sense of those that limit creation to a time frame which they perceive to be written in the Bible, but one who believes that there is a God and it is not for us to apply our notions of time or method to such a creation.
So findings outside of the Biblical time frame do not affect the strength of my faith. I'm the sort of person that looks at each new scientific and anthropological discovery and simply become more amazed at the complexity of God's creation.
So findings outside of the Biblical time frame do not affect the strength of my faith. I'm the sort of person that looks at each new scientific and anthropological discovery and simply become more amazed at the complexity of God's creation.
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October 18, 2009 07:23 AM
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The Bible's timeframe is written in "God time" not human time. We need to concentrate on the truths that the Bible reveals not look for facts between its pages. Faith is a way of knowing that is different from scientific ways of knowing.
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I disagree about the "God time" reference unless you're referring to time in prophecy where a day in Bible prophecy is equal to a normal year.
I have no problem envisioning the changes that have occurred on Earth happing in less than 7000 years. More data is being researched that supports this. Including massive changes to the earths surface (like the Grand Canyon) happening in a much shorter time frame than originally theorized.
Dinosaurs weren't evolutionary creatures meeeelions of years ago, pre-flood creatures were fossilized side by side with upright humans and microorganisms are found on mountaintops alongside other things that supposedly happened at different times. People forget that evolution is a theory. With every new discovery that disproves it, people work even harder to redefine and reexplain the theory so they don't have to give it up. Kinda funny actually, or sad depending on your viewpoint.
The more we learn about life and how to interpret the data we already have, the easier it is to comprehend life exactly as written in the Bible. I find that everything balances with scripture. Everything I learned in the Bible can be backed by actual science.
There are many creatures that are extinct that are not mentioned in the Bible, the only proof we have they ever existed at all may never be found (not all were as big as dinosaurs) and we lose more and more creatures every day from the Amazon forest. That doesn't mean they never existed just because they weren't written about.
The facts in the Bible are comprehendible and very real.
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I have no problem envisioning the changes that have occurred on Earth happing in less than 7000 years. More data is being researched that supports this. Including massive changes to the earths surface (like the Grand Canyon) happening in a much shorter time frame than originally theorized.
Dinosaurs weren't evolutionary creatures meeeelions of years ago, pre-flood creatures were fossilized side by side with upright humans and microorganisms are found on mountaintops alongside other things that supposedly happened at different times. People forget that evolution is a theory. With every new discovery that disproves it, people work even harder to redefine and reexplain the theory so they don't have to give it up. Kinda funny actually, or sad depending on your viewpoint.
The more we learn about life and how to interpret the data we already have, the easier it is to comprehend life exactly as written in the Bible. I find that everything balances with scripture. Everything I learned in the Bible can be backed by actual science.
There are many creatures that are extinct that are not mentioned in the Bible, the only proof we have they ever existed at all may never be found (not all were as big as dinosaurs) and we lose more and more creatures every day from the Amazon forest. That doesn't mean they never existed just because they weren't written about.
The facts in the Bible are comprehendible and very real.
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